{"id":31992,"date":"2016-01-14T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31992"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:01:21","slug":"the-oecd-say-ineuqality-is-bad-and-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/14\/the-oecd-say-ineuqality-is-bad-and-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"The OECD say inequality is bad and getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepeek.com\/Digital-Asset-Management\/oecd\/social-issues-migration-health\/income-inequality_9789264246010-en#page1\" target=\"_blank\">start of the foreword from a new OECD book on inequality<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/14\/the-oecd-say-ineuqality-is-bad-and-getting-worse\/screen-shot-2016-01-14-at-12-41-25\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31993\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-14-at-12.41.25-550x379.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-14 at 12.41.25\" width=\"550\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-14-at-12.41.25-550x379.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-14-at-12.41.25-435x300.png 435w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-14-at-12.41.25-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-14-at-12.41.25-192x132.png 192w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-14-at-12.41.25.png 1106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, apparently, wishing to address these issues makes you in the eyes of the political elite and those who report to them left wing, a threat to society and unelectable.<\/p>\n<p>And that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/12\/does-weakness-in-demand-imply-a-structural-change-in-the-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">the paradox at the heart of our economy<\/a>. It is still economically geared to meeting the wants of a few and not the needs of many. And in the process it is designed to increase inequality on any measure you care to think of.<\/p>\n<p>But God forbid anyone suggest we do anything about it or the neoliberal world as we know it might collapse.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it might. But as the OECD note, we might all be better off as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the start of the foreword from a new OECD book on inequality: But, apparently, wishing to address these issues makes you in the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/14\/the-oecd-say-ineuqality-is-bad-and-getting-worse\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,147,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-inequality","category-oecd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}